Hondo yeCape Falls
Italian light cruiser "Giovanni delle Bande Nere", mureza "Cadmium". Ferdinando Casardi paHondo yeCape Spada.
Munguva yekutanga yekurwa pakati pezvikepe zveBritish nezvikepe zveItaly, nguva pfupi mushure mekunge Italy yapinda muhondo iri parutivi rweThird Reich, muna Chikunguru 19, 1940, hondo yakaitika kubva kuCape Spada muCrete pakati pemaviri akakwira-speed. zvikepe zvikepe zvezvikepe zveItaly. pasi pemurairo waCadmius. Ferdinando Casardi, weAustralia light cruiser HMAS Sydney uye vaparadzi vashanu vekuBritain vachirairwa neCmdr. John Augustine Collins. Kuita zvechisimba uku kwakaguma nekukunda kwakasimba kweAllied, zvisinei nekutanga mukana mukuru wezvikepe zveItaly mukupfutisa moto.
Pakati paChikunguru 1940, murairo weRegia Marina wakasarudza kutumira boka revafambisi vaviri vanokurumidza kuenda kunzvimbo yechitsuwa cheLeros muDodecanese archipelago. Zvose izvi zvikamu zvinogona kukonzera dambudziko rakawanda kuBritish nekuvapo kwavo mumvura iyi, nokuti mune dzimwe nzira dzakarongwa dzaifanira kutarisana neAllied shipping muAegean Sea. Kuputika kweEs-Salloum kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweEgypt kwakafungwawo, asi pakupedzisira pfungwa iyi yakasiiwa.
Muparadzi weBritish Hasty, imwe yezvikepe zvina zverudzi urwu zvinosanganisirwa mu 2nd Flotilla,
pasi pemurairo waCdr. HSL Nicholson.
Nokuda kwebasa iri, zvikamu kubva ku2nd Light Cruiser squadron zvakasarudzwa. Zvaisanganisira Giovanni delle Bande Nere (mukuru Francesco Maugeri) uye Bartolomeo Colleoni (mukuru Umberto Novaro). Ngarava idzi dzaive dzekirasi yeAlberto di Giussano. Vaive neyakajairwa kusimuka kwe6571, kusimuka kwese kunosvika 8040 matani, zviyero: kureba - 169,3 m, hupamhi - 15,59 m uye dhizaini - 5,3-5,9 m, nhumbi dzokurwa: mativi - 18-24 mm, decks - 20 mm, pfuti huru yepfuti. shongwe - 23 mm, command post - 25-40 mm. Rudzi rwevatakuri veItaly vese vane chengetedzo ye1240 matani emafuta aive anenge 3800 nautical mamaira pakumhanya kwemafundo 18. Cadmium ndiye aive mutungamiriri wechikwata. Ferdinando Casardi akaenda kuBande Nere. Iwo maviri mayuniti akatanga kushanda muItaly Navy muna 1931-1932. Pakutanga, vakagadzira kumhanya kunoshamisa, kusvika pamakumi matatu nemapfumbamwe (asi pasina midziyo yakazara). Munguva yekurwa muna Chikunguru 39, vakakwanisa kusvika muzana ramakore rechi1940, izvo zvakavapa mukana mukumhanya pamusoro pevafambisi vengarava, uye kunyange vaparadzi vaive vashanda kwemakore akati wandei (iyi mukana wakaonekwa kunyanya mumamiriro ezvinhu akaoma zvikuru ehydrometeorological. ) mamiriro).
Mumwe nomumwe wevafambisi veItaly akanga akashongedzerwa zvakanaka: 8 152-mm pfuti, 6 anti-ndege pfuti. caliber 100 mm, 8 anti-ndege pfuti 20 mm muchina pfuti uye masere 8 mm pfuti muchina, pamwe ina 13,2 mm torpedo chubhu. Zvikepe izvi zvinogona kushandisa maviri IMAM Ro.4 seaplanes, kutora kubva muuta catapult, kuti reconnoiter bheseni asati akaronga mabasa.
Vafambisi vechikepe vekuItaly vakabva kuTripoli (Libya) musi waChikunguru 17, 1940 na22:00. Rear Admiral Kazardi akatumira zvikepe zvake kumugero uri pakati pemahombekombe eKrete uye chitsuwa cheAndikitira kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kwacho. Akafamba nechikepe ikoko achimhanya anenge 25 knots, achinyatsotenderera munzira kuti adzivise kurwiswa nengarava dzepasi pemvura, kunyange zvazvo nekumhanya ikoko angadai asina mukana wekubudirira. Kuma 6 mangwanani munaChikunguru 00, maItaly akasvika kumahombekombe ekumadokero kweKrete ndokutanga kufamba akananga kumhiri. Kusangana pakati pezvikepe zvevavengi uye vafambisi veKazardi zvaive zvisingatarisirwi, vachifungidzira kuti nzvimbo yaive pamberi pavo yakanga yatopazwa nendege yeDodecanese uye vangadai vakazivisa izvi zvisati zvaitika. Chero zvazvingava, hapana motokari dzekuongorora dzakatumirwa, kuitira kuti usapedza nguva uchivasimudza kubva mumvura uye usanonoka rwendo.
Zvirongwa zvevaItaly, zvisinei, zvingangove zvakatsanangurwa neBritish munguva, chero zvakadaro, pane zvakawanda zvinoratidza kuti hungwaru hwavo hwakaendesa nhau dzakakodzera kumukuru weMediterranean Fleet, admiral. Andrew Brown Cunningham 1. Pamasikati eJuly 17, vaparadzi vana ve2 Flotilla (Hyperion, Hastie, Hero uye Ilex2), iri muAlexandria, vakagamuchira murairo kubva kuMutevedzeri Mukuru weMediterranean Fleet, Vadma. John Tovey kuti aende kunzvimbo iri kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweCape Spada muCrete, achitsvaga zvikepe zvepasi pemvura zveItaly munzvimbo iyi uye zvishoma nezvishoma achifamba-famba munzvimbo yekumadokero. Kuzadzisa murayiro uyu, vaparadzi Cdr. Lieutenant Hugh St. Lawrence Nicholson akabva pachigadziko mushure mepakati pehusiku munaChikunguru 17-18.
